[nabs-l] I devices accessibility

[Ashley Bramlett]

Chris,
I know you have to download itunes and set it up with songs yourself with 
voiceover or on a pc or mac.
But, I was asking if you can ask siri to play a song in the existing itunes 
library on the device?
Can you also ask her to go to certain artists' albums and then you can read 
those with voiceover?

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:42 PM
To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] I devices accessibility

Josh is correct. Unfortunately, Siri can't do that.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Josh Gregory
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 6:33 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] I devices accessibility

I am not Chris, but no,  music must be on your phone. Siri cannot interact 
with iTunes.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 27, 2013, at 6:13 PM, "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> Chris,
> I wanted to know if Siri can interact with itunes?
> So, to clarify, are you saying it can pull up a specific song for you?
> Can you ask it to launch itunes and play a song or do you have to be in 
> itunes first?
> I'm impressed you can do so much with Siri. Everyone says its useful; I 
> mean both sighted and blind people.
> Thanks.
> Ashley
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: christopher nusbaum
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 5:02 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] I devices accessibility
>
> Arielle,
>
> All you have to do to use Siri for music is to tell it to play a
> certain song or artist.
>
> Chris Nusbaum
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 27, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ashley,
>> Most modern Braille devices including Braille Notes and Braille
>> displays can pair with I-devices without much effort. You can then
>> use the Braille device as both keyboard and Braille display in many
>> cases, and typemessages in either contracted or uncontracted Braille
>> and have it translated.
>> You can also use Siri to type texts and emails although I've never
>> tried using it for music.
>> Many Apple users, blind and sighted, choose to buy keyboards to pair
>> with their I-devices if they don't already have a Braille device.
>> I can type on my touch screen by activating touch typing in VoiceOver
>> and then dragging my finger around the screen until VoiceOver says
>> the letter I want. To enter the letter I lift my finger off the screen.
>> However, though I can do this I find  it slow and prefer to use Siri
>> or my RefreshaBraille.
>> Arielle
>>
>> On 1/27/13, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Many of you have I devices you communicate with now; I’ve seen many
>>> messages sent from i-phones, ipod touches and a few ipads.
>>> I have an ipod  and am struggling with the touch screen and staying
>>> oriented on it.
>>>
>>> My family and I were wondering how blind people most often interact
>>> with their i-phone and I touch. I see many messages written from
>>> these mobile devices, yet I know the touch screen keyboard is rather
>>> small and even for sighted people it can be challenging to use.
>>> So I was wondering about your experiences with these devices.
>>>
>>> Do you use the touch screen and voice over all the time? Do you use
>>> siri to perform functions? Can siri activate your itunes collection?
>>> I mean can you ask siri to play a certain song and it searches for it 
>>> and plays it?
>>>
>>> How do you type
>>> regular messages and text messages? Do you use a braille display
>>> with it and if so, which one? Can you type in braille and something
>>> translates it and then sends it out on your i-device?
>>> What computer functions do these devices have? Does it have a word
>>> processor, presentation application and spreadsheet?
>>> I know the Ipad has pages; not sure about the others.
>>>
>>> I know the Focus 14 display came out from freedom  scientific
>>> recently and a few friends have that paired with their i-phones. I
>>> also know the braille pen can be paired with it too.
>>>
>>> Finally, which aps are most helpful? Is the barcode reader one
>>> useful? What does i t cost? What is the difference between Look around 
>>> Me and Navigan ap?
>>>
>>> Thanks for letting me know.
>>>
>>> I’ll write my ipod gesture questions next message.
>>>
>>> Ashley
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